TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 210, 10 February 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Press Telegraph Agency.') Auckland, February 9. At the Sheep Fair to-day ten thousand sheep were offered. The competition was good, and prices ruled rather higher than last year, Good average sheep realised 18s to 255; old mixed pens, 9s to 19s; superior ewes, £3 2s to £3 15s. A half-holiday is proclaimed. The Volunteers paraded to-day. The city is gay with bunting. A ball takes place to-morrow. Gbahamstown, February 9. The representatives were entertained at a ball last night. Four hundred were present. The representatives departed for Auckland by the Luna to-day, accompanied by Dr Pollen and the Superintendent. New Plymouth, February 9. The German immigrants per the Humboldt are all engaged. The single girls were taken up immediately at wages of from 6s to 8s per week; married couples, £4O to £SO per year. Wellington, February 9. The Easby arrived at four o’clock. Passengers for Lyttelton, C. E. Dransfield; five in steerage. She made the passage in six days twenty hours. THIS BA T 8 TELEGRAMS. Auckland, February 10. The Manakau Company has paid £3750 as dividend to hve shareholders.

An Auckland Iron and Steel Company is now being formed in England, one third of the shares are reservedfor Auckland investors, William Sutton proceeds to England, per Glenora, to bring out the plant. He writes to the Cross stating that, from practical experiments, he is satisfied that Auckland iron sand is equal to that of Taranaki, and can he more profitably worked, owing to the cheapness of coal. Wanganui, Feb. 10. The Jockey Club has decided to give £2O to the second, and £lO to the third horse in the Handicap, [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, February 9. The Rev Mr Buddie, Wesleyan minister, in a lecture on popular amusement, condemned dancing in sweeping terms, as “calculated to arouse the worst passions of our nature.” Theatres, racing, and games of chance, must be considered as the forerunner of perdition. At the Thames ball and supper to the colonial representatives, Captain Goldie assured them that the representatives were delighted with their reception and the kindness shown to them by the people of the Thames. Of all the competitions he had attended, he never received so much kindness nor enjoyed himself so much as at the Thames. At a meeting of the representatives after the presentation of prizes Wilson urged a motion requesting the Government to hold the next firing at Dunedin, in order to create more enthusiasm in volunteering in Otago, hut owning to provincial jealousies developed at the meeting, every representative speaking in favor of his own little Pedlington, he withdrew the motion.

[FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, February 9, The Guardian, in a fierce leader on the Harbor Board, charges Gillies with keeping back his resignation for Waikonaiti in the Assembly until he finds a fit successor. It also charges him with causing irritation between the Board and the City Council. It says, “ the style of the correspondence provoked a rebuke from the General Government, and calls upon some memherwith honest audacity to insist on the production of this correspondence, which has been suppressed or only confided to an inner ring. ” At the Harbor Board’s meeting to-day, a local tender of £19,000, for anew dredge, was accepted. Simpson, the Board’s engineer, declines, at the present stage of operations, to report as to the system of dredging to be adopted. The Colonial Government wrote, asking to be made acquainted with the nature of the proposed works, with a view of securing the necessary lands for connecting the railways with them. A second letter from the General Government was considered in private. The hearing of the charge of manslaughter against John Miller occupied the attention of the Court all day. Witnesses swear positively that accused is the man whom they saw throw the deceased woman Ryder over the fence, from which act she received injuries resulting in her death. The only difference in his appearance is that he has shaved off his heard. Dunedin, February 10. By an accident in the Chain Hill Tunnel two men have been killed, and two more are seriously injured. No particulars yet to hand. [from an occasional correspondent.] Gkeymouth, February 9. A gold-mining company at Orwell Creek, Grey Valley, have been prospecting for a deep lead for the last twelve months. They struck a gutter thirty feet wide, and report prospects of three to six grains to the dish, The discovery is an important one, and likely to open a large area of auriferous ground.